The Last Of May Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DBDB EBEB FBFB| By fate's benevolent award | A |
| Should I survive the day | B |
| I'll drink a bumper with my lord | A |
| Upon the last of May | B |
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| That I may reach that happy time | C |
| The kindly gods I pray | B |
| For are not ducks and pease in prime | C |
| Upon the last of May | B |
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| At thirty boards 'twixt now and then | D |
| My knife and fork shall play | B |
| But better wine and better men | D |
| I shall not meet in May | B |
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| And though good friend with whom I dine | E |
| Your honest head is gray | B |
| And like this grizzled head of mine | E |
| Has seen its last of May | B |
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| Yet with a heart that's ever kind | F |
| A gentle spirit gay | B |
| You've spring perennial in your mind | F |
| And round you make a May | B |
William Makepeace Thackeray
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